Wisconsin Supreme Court's experts call Republican drawn map plans 'partisan gerrymanders'
Wisconsin Supreme Court's experts call Republican drawn map plans 'partisan gerrymanders'
- February 1, 2024
- Bernie Grofman, poli sci, Yahoo News (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), Feb. 1, 2024
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Two redistricting consultants hired by the Wisconsin Supreme Court to analyze proposals for new legislative boundaries in Wisconsin ruled out two plans submitted by Republican lawmakers and a conservative law firm and declared the remaining four submitted by liberal groups, university professors and Democrats "indistinguishable" from each other. … The consultants, Bernard Grofman of the University of California, Irvine and Jonathan Carvas of Carnegie Mellon University, told the justices they could draw a map for the court by taking one or all of the Democratic map plans and improve upon them.
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